Article
Identification of a human ortholog of the mouseDcppgene locus, encoding a novel member of the CSP-1/Dcpp salivary protein family
6 Sept 2006
Abstract excerpt
Salivary fluid, the collective product of numerous major and minor salivary glands, contains a range of secretory proteins that play key defensive, digestive, and gustatory roles in the oral cavity. To understand the distinct protein "signature" contributed by individual salivary glands to salivary secretions, we studied a family of proteins shown by in vitro mRNA translation to be abundantly expressed in mouse...